How Do You Read The C Major Scale For Piano?
The C major scale is the most common musical scale. It’s easy to play on the piano since you play only the white keys. The scale begins with the C note and ends with the same note one octave (eight notes) higher. Follow these steps to learn to read and play the C major scale in both treble and bass clef. Look at the keyboard of a piano. There are black keys and white keys. Notice that some of the white keys are separated by a black key. Some of the white keys are adjacent, without a black key between them. This difference is the key to understanding a major scale. Understand the difference between a whole step and a half step, also known as a tone or semi tone. A half step is the distance between two notes which are next to one another in pitch. Not surprisingly, a whole step is the interval made up of two half steps. Distinguish a half step from a whole step on the piano keyboard. On the keyboard, when two white keys are adjacent, with no intervening black key, it’s a half step from o
